Sweetheart
Update 2020; latest info (not confirmed) is that Sweetheart has been lost/sunk.
The known history of Sweetheart, the first dedicated steam trawler to be built for Hewett & Co Ltd. Please note that latest info (2019) from a source in Norway is that she has been lost.
Date | Owner | Address | Name | Comments |
1885 | Hewett & Co | London and Barking, England | Sweetheart, LO385 | Built by J.A.Stewart & Co, Barking. Iron, 99.4ft (30.3m) x 20.2ft (6.16m) x 9.5ft (2.9m), 131GT, 72NT, 24HP |
1905 | C.T Panner (J.Tidman) | London, England | ||
1907 | A.W.Long | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
1908 | H.Hansen | Isafjordur, Iceland | ||
1911 | Tonnes Wathne | Stavangar, Norway | Gardar MGQD | 136GRT 50NT |
1922 | J.Wathne,(and Tonnes Wathne, Stavangar, Norway) | Seydisfjordur, Iceland | ||
1926 | Tonnes Wathne | Stavangar, Norway | Gardar LFPK | 140GRT, 50NT |
1928 | Torstein Nygaard | Stavangar, Norway | ||
1929 | Torstein Nygaard (and Andr.Halstensen, Bekkjarvik, Bergen) | Stavangar, Norway | ||
1934 | Gardar LDYI | |||
1948 | K.Halstensen A/S (and Andr. Halstensen, Bekkjarvik) | Bekkjarvik, Bergen, Norway | Steam engine replaced by diesel (A/S Frederikshavns Jernstoberi & Maskinfabrik (Alpha) 2S 4cyl, 245BHP, 8.5 kts). 146GRT, 61NT. | |
1950 | Lengthened to 116.7ft (35.6m). 177GRT 79NT 235TDW | |||
1966 | Lengthened to 126.8ft (38.6m). 240 GRT 85NT | |||
1970 | Replacement engine (Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz A.G 4S, 8cyl diesel,620BHP, (made 1964), 10.5kts) | |||
1973 | Kristoffer Aase (co-owner) | Bekkjarvik, Bergen, Norway | Hordatral LDYI | |
1985 | Matthias Zeug | Fed Rep of Germany | To be shortened to original length and converted to pleasure sailing vessel | |
2001 | Kees van der Boos | Flensburg | Stortebeker | 40.40m (132.5ft)x 6.12m (20.1ft) x 2.95m (9.7ft). 3 mast barquentine, sail area 560 sq m |
2011 | Halstensen family | Bekkjarvik, Bergen, Norway | Gardar | To be restored as a museum fishing vessel and understood to be renamed Gardar |